Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] for [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An iconoclast , Engel may find the job sedate after the hurly-burly of the general election , which he has been covering for his newspaper . |
| 2 | Since Gooding 's detention in Coney Hill , the city 's MP has been campaigning for his transfer to more secure premises . |
| 3 | Mr John McIleree , who served with the Royal Signals for 20 years and now lives at Scotton , near Richmond , has been working for his technology degree since 1973 when he was still in the Army . |
| 4 | He has been waiting for his allowance since first putting in a claim for the new benefit on April 24 , more than six months ago . |
| 5 | I 've discovered who has been paying for my education . |
| 6 | It would therefore be incredibly naive to conclude from the PIMS data that it is erroneous for companies to increase capital intensity — when their snapshot was taken by PIMS they might still have been waiting for their day to come . |
| 7 | Grant got the impression that Larsen must have been waiting for his signal , like a sprinter crouched in his blocks waiting for the starter 's gun to launch him into motion . |
| 8 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |
| 9 | He could have been crying for his mummy . |
| 10 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 11 | The man claimed he had been looking for his girlfriend when challenged by staff members . |
| 12 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |
| 13 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for her electricity bill . |
| 14 | The last years had been alarming for his chauffeur . |
| 15 | The last years had been alarming for his chauffeur . |
| 16 | They gave him a letter that had been waiting for his arrival . |
| 17 | He had been waiting for his visa for three months . |
| 18 | Mrs Shirley Hayden , headteacher of Our Lady 's school in nearby Crowthorne , Berks , said : ‘ Oliver had been waiting for his mother to pick him up as usual at 3.15pm . |
| 19 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 20 | In a way , it was a waste of the cover story Maxim had been kiting for his trip to St Louis , but if it was a step forward … |
| 21 | As one of McLaughlin 's respondents , who had been caring for her mother for seven years , pointed out : ‘ Well that really is a nonsense because the amount it is at the moment compared to anybody that 's had the chance of a full-time job , you 're talking of £24 as opposed to a job of about £98 ’ ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 48 ) . |
| 22 | I 've been paying for me petrol with me money me family allowance . |
| 23 | I complied and he bellowed ‘ Five months , I 've been waiting for my telephone . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've been playing for our survival for a year and a half now so we are used to it , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The past four months have been exhausting for their mother Ann . |
| 26 | I have been singing for his lordship of Leicester . |
| 27 | He told Husband he 'd have to consult with the rest of the private Office and maybe even the PM before he could agree to them interrogating you ; he may actually be doing that , for all I know , though I think it 's more likely he 's been waiting for his temper to cool before he briefs you . |